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another one was murdered in new york city. they are really, really bad fates, but those who came back, many of them sent their children to be educated in america, and even if these children came back to china, a lot of third and fourth generations live here to this day. any other questions? yes? >> yeah, hi. >> hello, sorry. >> my great grandfather is in your book. >> oh, my. [laughter] >> i don't speak chinese, and my last name is chang, but you have it spelled two ways. [laughter] i knew him as great grandpa thai, but you have coa, but it's spelled differently in the index. >> well, there's a noble translation in here. we had a tremendously difficult time. first of all, i want to talk to you after this and hear more about this remarkable man that's featured in the book. we had a very difficult time with the translations because every name we came across was spelled two or three different ways according to different translations. we followed the advice of our translator and took the spelling that would have been most well-kno
another one was murdered in new york city. they are really, really bad fates, but those who came back, many of them sent their children to be educated in america, and even if these children came back to china, a lot of third and fourth generations live here to this day. any other questions? yes? >> yeah, hi. >> hello, sorry. >> my great grandfather is in your book. >> oh, my. [laughter] >> i don't speak chinese, and my last name is chang, but you have it spelled...
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he fell down the steps of his new york city home. he went into a coma and never came out of it. he often joked that cigarettes would kill him. he would sue the makers of pall mall of because the warning label on a cigarette package said it would kill him and they had not yet done so. that he actually happened to be smoking a pall mall of while standing -- >> next we have two pieces of artwork created by morley safer, one of our honorary board members. a close friend of kurt vonnegut. they both shared a close friend, sydney austin who wrote the introduction for the last book that came out. these two pieces of art. the first of the occasion of kurt vonnegut's birthday was created in 2003. the second was created when morley found out kurt vonnegut had died and that was in 2007. we are in the front of the kurt vonnegut libraries. we have his typewriter that was used in the 1970s and was donated to us by his daughter. he wrote many of his more familiar books in the 1970s. we are happy to have this typewriter. he was not a fan of high technology and did not use a computer. he preferre
he fell down the steps of his new york city home. he went into a coma and never came out of it. he often joked that cigarettes would kill him. he would sue the makers of pall mall of because the warning label on a cigarette package said it would kill him and they had not yet done so. that he actually happened to be smoking a pall mall of while standing -- >> next we have two pieces of artwork created by morley safer, one of our honorary board members. a close friend of kurt vonnegut. they...
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one case is david mcauliffe and the new york state. as a 16-year-old teenager he's been in prison for 26 years for a crime he didn't commit. there isn't a shred of evidence, no eyewitnesses, and no forensic evidence or anything like that that in any way places him near this crime and yet we have evidence of other people that haven't done that crime. we have forensic evidence, dna evidence even if other people. >> host: so why can't you get him out. >> guest: because the judge didn't push to overturn his decision. because the prosecutors are holding on to this conviction. the murder conviction is fuelling the grease of the criminal justice system. convictions and that is why we can't get these. we have to canadian citizens in washington state right now. there's teenagers who were tricked by the canadian mounted police to force confessions and to existence that cleared the way for all whole lot of people. and so now this goes to the criminal justice system false confessions. young teenagers confessing to professional interrogators who do
one case is david mcauliffe and the new york state. as a 16-year-old teenager he's been in prison for 26 years for a crime he didn't commit. there isn't a shred of evidence, no eyewitnesses, and no forensic evidence or anything like that that in any way places him near this crime and yet we have evidence of other people that haven't done that crime. we have forensic evidence, dna evidence even if other people. >> host: so why can't you get him out. >> guest: because the judge didn't...
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this was the first time i left to come to new york to speak about what was going on. it was the first time i left my country or was in a plane and the first time i had a passport and came to new york. some of you coming from to sun going to new york is easy. you can imagine what my case was. not only that, something you can relate to. i came in winter of 1996. i had no idea. i know the words snow and winter through shakespeare that i read growing up but i had no physical relationships with any of these things at all. the person who brought us had no idea where we were going. we had no winter jacket or hats or gloves. just very flimsy close because it is always warm. as it is here. we landed at jfk at 4:00 p.m. and it was already dark. that is not a dark time of day so this is already beginning to be quite strange for me. we saw snow for the first time. i was not thrilled about it. the only reference point i had was christmas so i thought it was christmas all the time. eventually it was where i began -- i met my mother, the woman who later adopted me and brought me bac
this was the first time i left to come to new york to speak about what was going on. it was the first time i left my country or was in a plane and the first time i had a passport and came to new york. some of you coming from to sun going to new york is easy. you can imagine what my case was. not only that, something you can relate to. i came in winter of 1996. i had no idea. i know the words snow and winter through shakespeare that i read growing up but i had no physical relationships with any...
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>> he collapsed, he fell down the steps of his new york city home, and he went into a coma and never came out of that coma. of -- he often joked that pall mall cigarettes would kill him, and he would sue the makers of pall mall because the warning label on the cigarette package said that pall malls would kill him, and they had not yet done so. but he actually happened to be smoking a pall mall while standing on the steps. so next we have here two pieces of artwork created by morley safer of "60 minutes" fame. morley is one of our honorary board members. he was a close friend of kurt vonnegut. they actually both shared a close friend, sydney offett, yo wrote the introduction -- who wrote the introduction for the last vonnegut book that came out. this was a gift to vonnegut in 2003 on his birthday, and then the second was created when morley found out that vonnegut had died. and that was 2007. we are in the front of the kurt vonnegut library in the gallery room. we have kurt vonnegut's typewriter that was used in the 1970s. this was donated to us by his daughter nanny. he wrote, you kn
>> he collapsed, he fell down the steps of his new york city home, and he went into a coma and never came out of that coma. of -- he often joked that pall mall cigarettes would kill him, and he would sue the makers of pall mall because the warning label on the cigarette package said that pall malls would kill him, and they had not yet done so. but he actually happened to be smoking a pall mall while standing on the steps. so next we have here two pieces of artwork created by morley safer...
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>> new york. >> how long have you lived in new york? >> i came to the states in 1956. i left hungary in 1947 and went to england and after nine years moved to america, and ever since then i have lived here. >> born in what year? >> 1930. >> why did you leave there? >> well, i'm jewish, and when i was 14 years old, the germans occupied the country and that was really the formative year of my life. so -- that made me. it's because my father had the foresight to get us papers that we -- false paper that's we survived. it was really my father's finest hour. and it was a vicious regime. he not only saved his life and his family's life, but he also helped a lot of people. that was an important experience for me. after that came the communist regime and it was very repressive and very boring, frankly. i wanted excitment. wanted out. when i was 17, i went to england. >> what did your father do for a living? >> a lawyer. >> how long did he live? >> he died in this country in 1968. >> you left hungary in 1947. >> yes. >> when did he leave? >> 1956, there was a revolution and he
>> new york. >> how long have you lived in new york? >> i came to the states in 1956. i left hungary in 1947 and went to england and after nine years moved to america, and ever since then i have lived here. >> born in what year? >> 1930. >> why did you leave there? >> well, i'm jewish, and when i was 14 years old, the germans occupied the country and that was really the formative year of my life. so -- that made me. it's because my father had the...
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river 1950 calling at "the new york times." she had herself and her shame it would let anyone examine her to the greek slave intervenes and promises to cure her penny does cure her high-performing one of the first ever mastic demands or lumpectomy is. as a return favor she tells him she would persuade her husband, a the king of persia was debating the eastern border of persia she will persuade him to invade the western border of persia in taurus greece so they can turn back to native greece. in doing so, this launches the persian war. so here's this woman -- and i'm quoting. and literally cried and from history. this is the moment in history when the face of persia at the returns from its easter feast of the western faith because of this illness. the urologist dedicates four or five lines and of course this launches the early history of the west, the turning of the face of persia away from its eastern border towards its western border, launching the very famous west and persian wars, so we now, 500 pages later returned back, re
river 1950 calling at "the new york times." she had herself and her shame it would let anyone examine her to the greek slave intervenes and promises to cure her penny does cure her high-performing one of the first ever mastic demands or lumpectomy is. as a return favor she tells him she would persuade her husband, a the king of persia was debating the eastern border of persia she will persuade him to invade the western border of persia in taurus greece so they can turn back to native...
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our new york times bestseller last year was the grand jihad by andy mccarthy. just out is freedom at risk by james buckley, senator james buckley. we've got a bunch of great, great titles coming out, so stop by our web site, www.encounter.com and see what you're missing. >> one more thing, can you tell us a little bit about why you decided to start the pamphlet series? >> yes. i saw -- in 2008 in that election cycle the internet had become an essential part of the metabolism of political debate and blogs and so on were absolutely essential to the way in which the messages were getting out, the the people were getting educated. but they had a couple of liabilities, i thought. one was that they were very ephemeral. i wrote a blog myself for pa pajamas media, so i know you can get thousands of hits, thousands of comments and then 17 hours later it's gone. they've moved on to the next thing. so i wanted something that had the meet -- immediacy of a blog, of the internet but could be a step back. i thought of common sense or the federalist papers, for that matter, w
our new york times bestseller last year was the grand jihad by andy mccarthy. just out is freedom at risk by james buckley, senator james buckley. we've got a bunch of great, great titles coming out, so stop by our web site, www.encounter.com and see what you're missing. >> one more thing, can you tell us a little bit about why you decided to start the pamphlet series? >> yes. i saw -- in 2008 in that election cycle the internet had become an essential part of the metabolism of...
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one case is david mccolin in new york state. as a 16-year-old teenager, he's been in prison for 26 years for a crime that he did not commit. there's not a shred of evidence, no eyewitnesss, no forensic evidence or anything like that, that would any way place him near this crime. and yet we have evidence of other people having done that crime. we have forensic evidence, dna evidence of other people. >> host: so why can't you get him out? >> guest: bought judge does not wish to overturn his decision. that's the reason why. because the prosecutors are holding onto this conviction. that's why. you see convictions is fueled in the grease of the criminal justice system. convictions. and that's why we can't get these off. we have two canadian citizens in washington state right now who as teenagers was tricked by the royal canadian mounted police into false confession. when dna came into existence, that cleared the way for a whole lot of people, you know? and so now the stories of the criminal justice system are false confessions. young
one case is david mccolin in new york state. as a 16-year-old teenager, he's been in prison for 26 years for a crime that he did not commit. there's not a shred of evidence, no eyewitnesss, no forensic evidence or anything like that, that would any way place him near this crime. and yet we have evidence of other people having done that crime. we have forensic evidence, dna evidence of other people. >> host: so why can't you get him out? >> guest: bought judge does not wish to...
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just the other day was reported in "the new york times" that on the southwest border alone in the last 17 months that 875 arrests were made of people from nations with links to terrorism. that has been a huge problem and i already heard today how the mission has adapted from illegal immigration to drugs, the war on drugs, to now protecting our borders from terrorism. this is a huge change that i've seen over the last decade myself early in the last decade been privileged to work and see a lot of video of the coast guard, airborne troops, watching over customs and border patrol agents and it is amazing what these folks do for us and engagements that they perform on a daily basis, putting themselves in harm's way to protect our country from drugs, the war on drugs and now terrorism. i think being in a quorum in this and not thank every customs agent -- [applause] thank you very much. [inaudible conversations] ♪ ♪ in a few moments part of our coverage of the conservative runcible's pac conference including speeches by mississippi governor haley barbour, former house speaker newt gingr
just the other day was reported in "the new york times" that on the southwest border alone in the last 17 months that 875 arrests were made of people from nations with links to terrorism. that has been a huge problem and i already heard today how the mission has adapted from illegal immigration to drugs, the war on drugs, to now protecting our borders from terrorism. this is a huge change that i've seen over the last decade myself early in the last decade been privileged to work and...
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they can claim to have a justice raised in new york, but there's two justices that grew up in mississippi, and one that was appointed west of the mississippi, and that's justice kennedy. look at the most recent justices and where they went to school. kagan, princeton and harvard. alito, princeton, john roberts went to harvard and then law school. i think that leads to my focus that is very troubling. also there's a narrow range of experience. few of the current justices spent significant amounts of time as trial judges or lawyers. society new have that experience. i think that affects the court's ruling and there's examples where they have begin the guidance they should be getting. i agree with you. i would like to see the president appoint the next earl warren. i think janet napoltano should be elected. we think of other examples of that, but i do think -- one more fact, when the supreme court decided brown versus board of education in 1954, not one was nine justices had been a federal court appeal judge. many came from political backgrounds, people like hugo black, a senator, earl warre
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christie in new york has shown -- new jersey, excuse me, has shown already there's appetite for people to cut back on spending and same with rubio. people are saying, gosh, we do need cuts to be sustainable. >> host: on that semioptimistic note. >> guest: i am optimistic americans get it right. >> host: thank you for being here, her book with lots of good data and big ideas and proposals. thank you very much for being with us, and thank you for watching. >> guest: thank you. >> that was "after words" in which the latest authors of nonfiction books are interviewed by others familiar with their material. "after words" airs every -- saturday, sunday, and monday. you can watch it online and go to booktv.orgñr and click on the book tv series and topics on the right hand of the page. >> coming up, william coon recalls the publishing career of jacqueline kennedy onassis. among this is relationships and the book on the assassination of john lennon and a -- >> i want to begin by telling you what a nosey biographer when invited to your house for the first time. you may not know me very well, bu
christie in new york has shown -- new jersey, excuse me, has shown already there's appetite for people to cut back on spending and same with rubio. people are saying, gosh, we do need cuts to be sustainable. >> host: on that semioptimistic note. >> guest: i am optimistic americans get it right. >> host: thank you for being here, her book with lots of good data and big ideas and proposals. thank you very much for being with us, and thank you for watching. >> guest: thank...
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astronomer from harvard university, and he spent much of his career back in the east coast in new york, massachusetts and various other places back east, and finally moved to tucson in 1998 i believe, and has been working for the national observatory. so he has a very distinguished career in astronomy, but he is a renaissance man and a sense. he is combining both sides of his brain and he has spent the last 20 years as a photographer, primarily i believe landscape photography. and he has to use that talent to combine with other writers, poets and to produce a series of hooks and photographs with some very interesting texts to go with them. he will talk now about the formation of the solar system and there are other solar systems like ours to be found. steve. >> thanks peter. i hope you don't mind if i stand. i am feeling terribly comfortable in this chair. i think i'm a little bit shorter than to buy six or 8 inches and i will get on the same level if i stand up. besides that, after lecturing for the better part of 40 years, it just has happened. so forgive me for that. one minor corre
astronomer from harvard university, and he spent much of his career back in the east coast in new york, massachusetts and various other places back east, and finally moved to tucson in 1998 i believe, and has been working for the national observatory. so he has a very distinguished career in astronomy, but he is a renaissance man and a sense. he is combining both sides of his brain and he has spent the last 20 years as a photographer, primarily i believe landscape photography. and he has to use...
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if that wasn't bad enough, "the new york times" and the "washington post" citing cia sources said he had been outed by the pakistani intelligence service, the interservice intelligence director at isi. now i've been engaged in liaison with foreign governments for many years. this is not normal behavior. we don't usually do this. we don't usually out each other, and then talk about it in the newspapers. since the arrest of mr. davis, the president has said very clearly is a diplomat and must be given diplomatic immunity. we have already canceled a trilateral afghanistan, and pakistan meeting for cooperation in the war to work against al qaeda. pakistani's president zardari's march visit to the united states is in jeopardy, and president obama's promise to pakistan in 2011 is clearly in jeopardy. and if this wasn't bad enough, if you listen carefully to spokesman on both sides, there's a sense of doom and foreboding behind this relationship. pakistan's chief of army staff general ciani was here last fall. when he went home to pakistan, he said he was the most bullied man in the world.
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he had just turned 17 and wasn't legally old enough to drink in new york state. some of you were old enough to remember 18 was the limit at that time. but he looked like he was 18. bobby knew this election without looking at the menu. he tackled an enormous slab of roast prime rib which he consumed in a matter of minutes. if he were a heavyweight boxer enjoying his last meal before the big fight. he just received in the mail -- poor a lull in the conversation, that was typical when spending time with bobby since he didn't talk much and wasn't embarrassed by a long silence, i asked bobby, how are you going to prepare for this tournament? are always want to know how you did it? he seemed unusually chipper and became interested in my interest. i will show you, he said. he slid out of his side of the booth and crammed me into the corner. set, all the little pieces lined up in their respective slot ready to go to war. i don't know if you remember seeing those but they are hardly larger than an index card. he looked from me to the set and back and forth at least at fir
he had just turned 17 and wasn't legally old enough to drink in new york state. some of you were old enough to remember 18 was the limit at that time. but he looked like he was 18. bobby knew this election without looking at the menu. he tackled an enormous slab of roast prime rib which he consumed in a matter of minutes. if he were a heavyweight boxer enjoying his last meal before the big fight. he just received in the mail -- poor a lull in the conversation, that was typical when spending...
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the new york times, september 11th, 2001. on top of the world, and after that he had to hide his head. he became a figure of total disrepute. his book sunk quickly into obscurity. i would be just horrified if i put so much faith in that and that is what happened. i saw a picture and started reading it. altogether actually a pretty good book. say what you will, he had an event full life and in seven full time. once you get into the heart of the story it's pretty compelling. i mean, a fugitive from justice for ten years, setting up bombs, blowing people up. dan gets blown up in a greenwich village bomb blast. i begin to see certain patterns. i feel like i am reading something have already read before. and i have my first eureka moment, but it is kind of a stupid one. what i thought at first, crush, i have to -- they are both in chicago, both kind of radical, they have the same ghostwriter. some same left-wing poets. i had no idea about errors background. here are two sentences that caught my eye early on. i'll just read them. t
the new york times, september 11th, 2001. on top of the world, and after that he had to hide his head. he became a figure of total disrepute. his book sunk quickly into obscurity. i would be just horrified if i put so much faith in that and that is what happened. i saw a picture and started reading it. altogether actually a pretty good book. say what you will, he had an event full life and in seven full time. once you get into the heart of the story it's pretty compelling. i mean, a fugitive...
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i sent a letter to the editor in chief of the new york times saying how would like to write for you. interestingly he wrote back and said okay. he also understood that there was only one topic i was an expert on. he said why don't you write about growing up in the 60's. that became a cover story in the new yorkte >> in the good and a troubling ways and altman they lead to publishing that book before i got too old. they were rushing me they did not want me to be 20. [laughter] >> none of us are 20 now but i wrote this book "expecting to fly" after another but i had written about mybo daughter. d i was a business person running radiob station and working as a professional fund-raiser in me and -- made and had nicew live and the '60s weref behind me per kravis the president of the rotary and it meant ao lot of the day's show what to me i was are responsible citizen. i have gotten over town and people about the stuff i used to do because i thought everybody did that and then i would the survey with long messy her. they will look at me like this. you know, that the lsc and they would say
i sent a letter to the editor in chief of the new york times saying how would like to write for you. interestingly he wrote back and said okay. he also understood that there was only one topic i was an expert on. he said why don't you write about growing up in the 60's. that became a cover story in the new yorkte >> in the good and a troubling ways and altman they lead to publishing that book before i got too old. they were rushing me they did not want me to be 20. [laughter] >>...
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i witnessed the fact that the new york times wanted me to write about my life. the summer after that i was on the panel at the democratic national convention talking about the youth vote. amazing. then i was listened to. i don't think that young people -- i'm thinking of my own three adult children -- have the same sense of being a part of the process. as i know that i did. >> yes, mark. >> i'm constantly kicking myself because i missed the punk movement. after 7i actually think punk is culturally probably more important than most of us and this from realize. i notice that they yawned anarchist kids relate to punk, neil plonk. that is their music. so i think oh, man, i missed something. no, i just about can maybe figure out jam it tarnishes sensibility, his movies. he is pawned. anyway, so i second what martha said about everybody thinking. on the other hand, there was something special about those of us who grew up in the 50's and early 60's and experienced the civil rights movement in the south because that was an example of a moment in history : what an indiv
i witnessed the fact that the new york times wanted me to write about my life. the summer after that i was on the panel at the democratic national convention talking about the youth vote. amazing. then i was listened to. i don't think that young people -- i'm thinking of my own three adult children -- have the same sense of being a part of the process. as i know that i did. >> yes, mark. >> i'm constantly kicking myself because i missed the punk movement. after 7i actually think...
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it's like if i said can your airplane, did you fly to new york in the airplane? no, it can't fly. >> i can tell you no authoritatively since we rolled them out in airports. i was no involved with the program from inception, i don't know what occurred earlier in the programs' inception. i'm virtually for certain, but i wasn't in the airports and how they were used in the airports, but tsa says we vice president. i just can't say before my time there. >> i appreciate that, but just because you're on the record, i find the inconsistency between the record. i won't take the time of this committee, but that is the concern. instead of hearing a definitive no, it's not capable, i read specifications, ip address, ether net, it basically has the capabilities, and that's the challenge. i've taken this gentleman's time. i yield back my time and recognize the gentleman from maryland for five minutes. >> chairman, i just noted you all stopped the clock for about two or three minutes, so did you know that? let me just say, gentlemen, you all have a very tough job. you have a v
it's like if i said can your airplane, did you fly to new york in the airplane? no, it can't fly. >> i can tell you no authoritatively since we rolled them out in airports. i was no involved with the program from inception, i don't know what occurred earlier in the programs' inception. i'm virtually for certain, but i wasn't in the airports and how they were used in the airports, but tsa says we vice president. i just can't say before my time there. >> i appreciate that, but just...
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book that can out of that "new york times" magazine peace is at the ten -- at "looking back: a chronicle of growing up old in the sixties". i had this book. it has been with me a long time. joyce has ridden the second memoir called at home in the world which was written in 1998 and updated last year. in the middle of our panel is martha tod dudman who lives on mount desert island, maine or as we call it, mount desert island. she has been in business, a fund raiser, but all her li
book that can out of that "new york times" magazine peace is at the ten -- at "looking back: a chronicle of growing up old in the sixties". i had this book. it has been with me a long time. joyce has ridden the second memoir called at home in the world which was written in 1998 and updated last year. in the middle of our panel is martha tod dudman who lives on mount desert island, maine or as we call it, mount desert island. she has been in business, a fund raiser, but all...
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>> coming up next on booktv, william mcgowan says that the "new york times" "new york times" has adopted a liberal ideological agenda under the tenure of current publisher arthur sulzberger junior. he says the newspaper has tarnished his reputation of a trusted news source. william mcgowan presents his arguments in the debate with the american editor at large for "the guardian." u.. >> a few months ago, the daily beast absorbed "newsweek" or the other way around. and we have seen situations in which there's now some original content that occurs only online. i mentioned two sources. the fiscal times, and those who want to follow new york issues, web site called "the city pragmatist." something exciting is happening, and one good thing is this web page of "the new york times." a rocky start. a lot of good content. the title of tonight's discussion, "the new york times" good for democracy? a better question would have been, wouldn't have been as provocative, on balance, is "the new york times" good for democracy? and to that question we can give, yes, but, and no, but, answers, with a lot o
>> coming up next on booktv, william mcgowan says that the "new york times" "new york times" has adopted a liberal ideological agenda under the tenure of current publisher arthur sulzberger junior. he says the newspaper has tarnished his reputation of a trusted news source. william mcgowan presents his arguments in the debate with the american editor at large for "the guardian." u.. >> a few months ago, the daily beast absorbed "newsweek" or...
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this photo which was given to us by "the new york times" was taken during the first gulf war. and there's vonnegut out this at columbia university -- out there at columbia university. you know, i'm sure it was a large crowd because even to his dying day, vonnegut would attract a large crowd. it was -- i have been told he was like a rock star coming into his different speeches in large auditoriums, always filled the auditorium. so here we are in the art gallery portion of our library. i'd like to take you over here and show you a vonnegut quote that's signed that was given to us by his artistic collaborator. he says, "i don't know what it is about hoosiers, but wherever you go there's always a hoosier doing something very important there." this quote was in the book "cat's cradle," and it's a very funny exchange that the main character has with a fellow traveler on a plane, and that fellow traveler gives this quote. next we have possibly his most famous piece of artwork, the sphincter. vonnegut, in his humor, he associated the asterisk with this anatomical feature. and we, we a
this photo which was given to us by "the new york times" was taken during the first gulf war. and there's vonnegut out this at columbia university -- out there at columbia university. you know, i'm sure it was a large crowd because even to his dying day, vonnegut would attract a large crowd. it was -- i have been told he was like a rock star coming into his different speeches in large auditoriums, always filled the auditorium. so here we are in the art gallery portion of our library....
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she was a deputy campaign manager when it was senator clinton running for the senate in new york. we are very privileged today to have roger pilon and neera tanden to talk about what are really quite titanic struggles in the courts over the future of this law. the chief legal correspondent for cbs news, i covered the court since 1994 and there are issues that very infrequently develop and form in the way this case is. it is almost like we know now that we have this kind of gathering storm off the shore and it is slowly moving toward one place and that is 1 of first place -- first street in the united states supreme court. as we said earlier there are several challenges under way across the country all of which will get to the supreme court at about the same time. we have a legal challenges that will be heard by the federal appeals court sixth circuit in june. there will be arguments by the richmond based federal appeals court fourth circuit on may tenth and now there's an effort underway to have the atlanta based federal appeals court here on a very expedited basis by the full cou
she was a deputy campaign manager when it was senator clinton running for the senate in new york. we are very privileged today to have roger pilon and neera tanden to talk about what are really quite titanic struggles in the courts over the future of this law. the chief legal correspondent for cbs news, i covered the court since 1994 and there are issues that very infrequently develop and form in the way this case is. it is almost like we know now that we have this kind of gathering storm off...
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this new war -- new york library has to the event will honor several writers. on april 9th book tv will be live from the ninth annual annapolis boat festival in annapolis maryland providing coverage of several nonfiction . is there a book festival happening near yu
this new war -- new york library has to the event will honor several writers. on april 9th book tv will be live from the ninth annual annapolis boat festival in annapolis maryland providing coverage of several nonfiction . is there a book festival happening near yu
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another one was murdered in new york city. really really grisly fates. those he came back, many of them sent their children to be educated in america and even if these children came back to china a lot of the third and fourth generations lived here until this day. any other questions? >> hi. my great grandfather great-grandfather is in your book. >> oh my. >> i don't speak chinese. my last name is chang. but you have it spelled two ways i always knew him as great grandpa type that you have cowshed ig. >> yeah. this is amazing. >> but it is spelled, it is spelled differently in the index. >> well, there is a note on translation somewhere in here. we had a tremendously difficult time. first of all i would like to talk to you after the meeting and hear a lot more about this mark of old man who is really prominently featured in the book we had a very difficult time with the transliterations because every name we came across was spelled often two or three different ways according to the different names. mostly we followed the advice of our translator and to t
another one was murdered in new york city. really really grisly fates. those he came back, many of them sent their children to be educated in america and even if these children came back to china a lot of the third and fourth generations lived here until this day. any other questions? >> hi. my great grandfather great-grandfather is in your book. >> oh my. >> i don't speak chinese. my last name is chang. but you have it spelled two ways i always knew him as great grandpa type...
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this event was hosted by the manhattan institute in new york city. it's about 40 minutes. >> how many of you have seen the movies i'm going to be discussing before and those who haven't might want to get out a little more. [laughter] >> this is a shot from "sex and the city." "sex and the city," as most of you was a television series as well as the subject of two movies or the title of two movies. there have been much spilled on this topic of this foursome but i want to say something about what's less commend. this is probably the highest educated group ever to appear on television. right? we have a harvard-educated corporate lawyer. we have a art gallery manager. a public relations consultant. and a journalist -- well, a sex columnist. [laughter] >> they represent what i call the new girl order. now, let's go to the next image. [laughte [laughter] >> whoops. more of the same and more of the same. could this be the new boy order? i call them a child man, and these are the characters are on the order of caricature but they have gained flak contemporar
this event was hosted by the manhattan institute in new york city. it's about 40 minutes. >> how many of you have seen the movies i'm going to be discussing before and those who haven't might want to get out a little more. [laughter] >> this is a shot from "sex and the city." "sex and the city," as most of you was a television series as well as the subject of two movies or the title of two movies. there have been much spilled on this topic of this foursome but i...
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it took seven days for the news to travel to new york city. it wind cornelius vanderbilt died in 1877 the first telephone had been installed in the white house. during the lifetime of the first taken america moved from being of world agricultural society to a corporate industrial economy. this colossal change is eliminated by mr. styles in his book about mr. vanderbilt. leading into this conversation is paul hutton, our neighbor from mexico. an eminent historian, professor of history at the university of new mexico, well-known for both scholarly and popular authors. he wrote the award-winning phil sheridan and his army. he also has his jesse james book over there. we will have about 45 minutes of conversation after richard will have a question and answer from the audience. after this presentation the author will be signing in the mad and signing area. if you go out the doors, turn right and head down toward old maine. books are available right outside the door. >> housekeeping, the festival is free. we have wonderful stimulating
it took seven days for the news to travel to new york city. it wind cornelius vanderbilt died in 1877 the first telephone had been installed in the white house. during the lifetime of the first taken america moved from being of world agricultural society to a corporate industrial economy. this colossal change is eliminated by mr. styles in his book about mr. vanderbilt. leading into this conversation is paul hutton, our neighbor from mexico. an eminent historian, professor of history at the...
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she wrote a piece for the new yorker on the new institute of contemporary photography in new york city which was then on fifth avenue. and, indeed, one of the books she had in her room, in her bedroom when she died on fifth avenue in 1994 was a book commemorating an essay prize she'd won as a young, as a young woman at miss porter's school in connecticut. so being a writer was also important to her identity. after her new yorker piece was published, her former white house social secretary, latisha baldridge, suggested that jackie get in touch with an old friend of theirs, tom ginsburg, whose family firm was the viking press. a major publishing firm later acquired by penguin, but at this stage the family firm that belonged to the ginsburgs. she met with tom ginsburg, he thought it would be great to have her on board. he thought, she knows everyone, she has the most -- she has the best sort of address book in new york. we can certainly get some good book projects out of her, and it'll be good pr for the company as well, so he was happy to take her on in 1975. their relationship, though,
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york and other places across the united states, those pressures will actually escalate if you cannot solve your interest rate problem and the fact you do have to pay that money in the environment where interest rates are moving up. >> host: when you are saying is that despite what we are seeing now in wisconsin that the government in plenty union and the the state legislature and governor that's going to be repeated all across america. >> guest: the specific issue is collective bargaining but it is reflective of a great problem in the united states which everybody knows that many of the states and the federal government is simply too indebted and has massive deficits and those together means something has to give. there is a lot of debate as we know about cutting spending. i fear that there will be much more happening on the side and i think it is problematic. the united states already in corporate taxes is 35%. this is much higher than the oecd average of 25%. in fact a friend of mine from denmark quite recently was quite surprised because in the market as we know the income tax of
york and other places across the united states, those pressures will actually escalate if you cannot solve your interest rate problem and the fact you do have to pay that money in the environment where interest rates are moving up. >> host: when you are saying is that despite what we are seeing now in wisconsin that the government in plenty union and the the state legislature and governor that's going to be repeated all across america. >> guest: the specific issue is collective...
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so farber wrote to yella in new york. yella sent him an anti-folic, and he began to inject, farber begin to inject children with these anti-volokhs and demonstrated one of the first times in history a remission in childhood leukemia. and thereby invented chemotherapy. that is farber's moment in which he comes out of his basement. and, in fact, the idea of using an anti-metabolite, anti-folic is central to even the way we perform every today's for many types of cancer. so that's a back story. but the front story was, if that's the case, if it's a case that this is story about full of, who was the patient was the first person to receive folic acid. again i want to tell this from the eyes of the child receiving chemotherapy. not the eye such as the scientist administering chemotherapy, because it seems to me again that we violate the fundamental principles of the book. this was about page 60 in the book, i said wait a second, i have no idea who this child is. i'm on page 60 and i can't find the first patients or first series
so farber wrote to yella in new york. yella sent him an anti-folic, and he began to inject, farber begin to inject children with these anti-volokhs and demonstrated one of the first times in history a remission in childhood leukemia. and thereby invented chemotherapy. that is farber's moment in which he comes out of his basement. and, in fact, the idea of using an anti-metabolite, anti-folic is central to even the way we perform every today's for many types of cancer. so that's a back story....
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and finance is in new york. there is the industry were no just a little more is more valuable, is more important. that's why there's this very strong tendency of ideal oriented industry to be the mainstay of the urban renaissance. you're talking about leveraging this urban ability to connect smart people who then learn from one another. it's often suggested of course that computers will make that obsolete. i don't think that's true. because of something so fundamental about people that makes face-to-face contacts of valuable. we have evolved over millions of years to have an incredibly rich set of tools, communicating. the hard part about teaching, not knowing your script, you're not knowing the information that you want to proclaim from on high. it's not whether or not your audience gets. it's whether or not your ideas are getting too. human beings have all these great juices in the compensation of confusion. that's a critical part of transmitting complicated ideas. and what new technology is that is to me the
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in new york i see it every day. i see old people pushing their walkers on to the left of the buses and go into all kinds of places. i see people with a little more money getting taxes, but you do not need a car to live in only a few cities in this country. so we have a country without public transportation. it is a mini train, people moving back to seize when they reach retirement age. i do think that whether it's paid or unpaid work, people who have their minds need to keep engaged in working and in the community as long as they can't. not because it's going to guarantee they will never get alzheimer's or die and they can defy old age for ever. but because it makes for a meaningful life now. but apart from that i don't know if -- in other words, those are things that are controllable. you don't leave the life of eventual winner not one. you make the best of your physical situation. new york is an assisted living community. i don't understand why more places like lansing, michigan, where my mother lives don't delive
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chair yields five minutes to the gentleman from new york, mr. engel, for questions. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i've been listening to the whining and complaining on the other side of the aisle, and it just really boggles my mind. madam secretary, the bottom line is do we want to provide american citizens with health care or don't we? i know there hasn't been any enthusiasm for the affordable care act on the other side of the aisle, but, you know, let's try to improve it rather than try to destroy it. i noted with a bit of a chuckle the assault on the massachusetts law. the fact is that the governor of massachusetts came here and said that the law is working, and i wonder if governor romney is going to run on his strong implementation of ha law in the republican -- that law in the republican primaries when he runs for president? madam secretary, what are the most dangerous things in the republican cuts as you see it from your very important point of view of providing health care for americans and all the other things that are in the republican p
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"the new york times" best seller. daniel blogs everyday at www.hannan.co.uk at nursing political and cultural issues. his blog attracts 200,000 hits a week from 80,000 unique users. we are very fortunate to have him with us today. please welcome the member of the european parliament, daniel hannan. [applause] >> think you very much for those generous words and the ladies and gentlemen i tell you it isn't something we are accustomed to as members of the year appeal of parliament. [laughter] we are generally not the most popular people. you don't have to contradict when i say that. i got used to it over the years. maybe it has something to do with the fact that none of you can vote for me. [laughter] you won't find a politician in the united kingdom who is a bigger fan of jeffersonian democracy than me but i suspect in your third president occasionally enjoy being able to speak to an audience when nobody could vote for him and he didn't need to worry about what he said. we had an election a couple of months ago, a gener
"the new york times" best seller. daniel blogs everyday at www.hannan.co.uk at nursing political and cultural issues. his blog attracts 200,000 hits a week from 80,000 unique users. we are very fortunate to have him with us today. please welcome the member of the european parliament, daniel hannan. [applause] >> think you very much for those generous words and the ladies and gentlemen i tell you it isn't something we are accustomed to as members of the year appeal of parliament....
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now, new york's port made that happen. the thing that made the harper brothers succeed in the 1920s was that they could get the latest novels before their competitors because they were in new york, this great port that got the books first and enabled them to print first and dominate the market. chicago as well. chicago's greatest industry, the stockyards grew up around the rail yard. the stockyards were next to rail, and in detroit and even more remarkable event occurred in the rise of the automobile industry, and it shows the ability of cities that formed for mundane reasons to then create these chapes of innovation -- chains of innovations. if you go back to mid 19th century detroit, it's a city of small firms, smart people, and connections to the outside world. it has trade and taking care of the engyps on the ships -- engines going on the great lakes. detroit, a dry dock, frank kerby, a great shipping entrepreneur comes there and they perform a critical role educating young people working with engines like henry ford.
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three women on the supreme court all from new york city. isn't that amazing? and then one more final fact and i will quit boring you with statistics. the supreme court has issued 22 opinion so far this term. as is sometimes the case earlier in the term, you see these five five-4 decisions at the end of the term and more unanimity because it is easier to write opinions when everybody is in agreement. but it seems to be even more remarkable is here. only 10 dissents, 22 times nine or eight in many cases because justice kagan has been recused in 15 of the 22 but only 10 of 22 cases. all the justices have written two or three opinions for the court except justice thomas. he hasn't written a single one for the court yet this term and here we are in the middle of march so to speak so there are some demographics on the supreme court that tell us a little bit about what the court is in. >> a couple of comments on ted's very interesting statistics. the first is the fact that they for judges to step down and served an average of 28 years, i think is unfortunate. i think
three women on the supreme court all from new york city. isn't that amazing? and then one more final fact and i will quit boring you with statistics. the supreme court has issued 22 opinion so far this term. as is sometimes the case earlier in the term, you see these five five-4 decisions at the end of the term and more unanimity because it is easier to write opinions when everybody is in agreement. but it seems to be even more remarkable is here. only 10 dissents, 22 times nine or eight in...
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the court in new york says states don't weigh those tenth amendment writes. there's no indication -- >> it does assume as justice kinney said that the reason that is there in the constitution is only for the benefits for the states. and not for the benefit of the people and the states. so it's a state chooses to give it away, the individual has no standing. you say it's third parties that are raising a states rights. i think what the other side is argued this is not a right of the states. it the right of the individual to have the state take charge of certain matters and the federal government take charge of other matters. i don't see why there's any difference from an article 1, section 8 claim. >> that's the conclusion the court can reach. but what the petitioners position essentially holds is there's never a question a third party standing for any claim under the constitution. not the kind i'm talking about, no claims are limited to certain -- >> there's a question of causality so some will not be valid because you can't show that the state was coerced int
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one is of new york state. a 16-year-old teenager. he's been in prison for 26 years for a crime he didn't commit. there is not a shred of evidence. no eyewitnesses, no forensic evidence or anything like that that would in any way please him near this crime and debt, we have evidence other people haven't done that crime. we have forensic evidence, dna evidence of other people. >> host: so why can't you get the nod? >> guest: the judge did not wish to overturn his decision. that's the reason why because the prosecutors are holding on to his conviction. that's why. you see, murder conviction is fuel and degrees of the criminal justice system. conviction and that's why we can't get these people out. we have to canadian citizens in washington state right now, sebastian burns has teenagers tricked by a canadian mounted police into a false confession. when the dna came into existence, that cleared the way for a whole lot of people, you know, and so, now the scourge of the criminal-justice system are false confessions. young teenagers confess
one is of new york state. a 16-year-old teenager. he's been in prison for 26 years for a crime he didn't commit. there is not a shred of evidence. no eyewitnesses, no forensic evidence or anything like that that would in any way please him near this crime and debt, we have evidence other people haven't done that crime. we have forensic evidence, dna evidence of other people. >> host: so why can't you get the nod? >> guest: the judge did not wish to overturn his decision. that's the...
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from obama to speaker boehner to senator mccain, from "the new york times" to the washington times, from fox news to national public radio and from most of the u.s. presore yacht and pundit try to many of the top pastors of the christian evangelical community u.s. leaders left, right and center believe there is no political problem, war, gender equality deficiency, revolution, ethnic conflict, crooked election, jailed female poet or religious clash that does not require direct american involvement. and this whether or not they can identify even a single genuine u.s. national interest at risk. in making in this this claim, i do not suggest i can read the minds or hearts of those who have for three decades designed our disastrous foreign policy in the muslim world. because no one has such divine insight, i take as my guide general washington's assertion that the views of men can only be known or guessed at by their words or actions. using this metric, our leaders' pervasive, bipartisan interventionism emerges in sharp relief. u.s. intervention, then, is the islamists' main motivation for f
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in 1933 on like the information of "the new york times" in 1933 the guy like walter wouldn't have been able to bury the press the story of six to eight killed by joseph stalin. in 1957 to '59 "the new york times" reporter herbert matthews calls the internet existed wouldn't have been able to pass the new george washington did it. thank you, internet. you've changed everything for the better. what happens -- [applause] what happens is the place where i was writing is you could come when you put off a new idea is to become the source of people with similar thoughts across the world. before this is over i would have about a half a dozen people from places like australia, south africa, israel, india, switzerland, hawaii and all across the united states. my single best, for all of that coming and going to in in paris and he's an incredibly savvy, smart, well written observation from him, he says did you see this -- here's one that he threw by any. people teach the students go into the hudson river and the one kid is is to the other book the river is flowing from north to south and the other
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now, andrew nathan in the review i believe for the new york review books describe that particular biography as bits of plastic and bits of jade. well, i would rather focus on the jade and take that, and i have time for a plastic. i'm not one to go and jump up and down because i discovered another piece of plastic in that book. there's a lot of jade. i would rather take that. the way i look at it, historic rapidly so to speak on is that has actually made it possible for others like myself to write about this period and about mao in a much more critical manner. so, i still believe that book is fundamental from a historical point of view. and they keep on going back to it. i keep on going back to it. i still go back to the chapters, check the footnotes, of course there's plastic, they're still a lot of jade in there. and what else is there to read on that period? not an awful lot. [inaudible] >> it seems to me, my biggest reservation is as follows, it portrays mao as a monster, which he was. but it doesn't really look at all the others who were there to support mao, all the others who were the
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i recognize the gentlelady from new york for five minutes. >> first i would like to welcome my former colleague, tom davis who did an extraordinary job was chairman of the committee. he was always a good fighter for the part of the cause, but also reasonable and listen to the minority in work together on a not good bills. it's good to see you. we miss you, tom. welcome back. i want to thank mr. dodaro for your report. it's very helpful and the chairman for focusing on it because this is a time when he to look at ways to protect taxpayers dollars and start reducing the deficit and debt. .. may have withheld 117 million in uncollected or royalties. that is a staggering amount, and your report indicates one reason this may be happening is because we rely on oil companies to self report. >> there needs to be more verification by the interior department of the data to make sure that the federal government is getting -- reasonable assurance they're getting the revenues that are there and so there is a set schedule with the department was behind in maintaining that schedule. why in the world
i recognize the gentlelady from new york for five minutes. >> first i would like to welcome my former colleague, tom davis who did an extraordinary job was chairman of the committee. he was always a good fighter for the part of the cause, but also reasonable and listen to the minority in work together on a not good bills. it's good to see you. we miss you, tom. welcome back. i want to thank mr. dodaro for your report. it's very helpful and the chairman for focusing on it because this is a...
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york -- click on new york and find the office of senator schumer and i talked to staff. click on the other other staff, rules committee. build number unfortunately we will have to make up the bill number since there is one yet. client representative, sunlight foundation, lda code would be gov for government reform. action requested, co-sponsor a bill. hit submit. of course that goes nowhere because we don't have real-time on line disclosure but if we did you could see how that would need a convenient reporting tool that i think would ease a lot of the reporting requirements on lobbyists right now. one more thing i would like to point out. lobbyist disclosure really can be good for lobbyist. in the american -- facebook page there was a comment i think is very telling. in the state of the union the president for the second year in a row foist his support for stronger lobbyist disclosure. in response one lobbyist said, great, put it out there, if nothing to hide. in fact it would be a great free advertisement about how well i and my firm represent our clients. i hope more l
york -- click on new york and find the office of senator schumer and i talked to staff. click on the other other staff, rules committee. build number unfortunately we will have to make up the bill number since there is one yet. client representative, sunlight foundation, lda code would be gov for government reform. action requested, co-sponsor a bill. hit submit. of course that goes nowhere because we don't have real-time on line disclosure but if we did you could see how that would need a...
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leaked to "the new york times," their great headlines about, you know, a secret escalation in the works, you know, this kind of thing, and johnson just said to heck with it. we'll just call for more peace talks. and this time they had them. so it wasn't that tet demoralized the united states, tet just demoralized lyndon johnson. and it wasn't that johnson lost middle america, middle america lost the president. and that's why tet was sacrificed. it wasn't just the press, it was mainly lyndon johnson. he gave up on himself. so the lessons, i guess, from be tet that apply to today are things like don't give the enemy credit for having a better plan than they have. sometimes you'll see people today talk about terrorists like they're some kind of geniuses, long-term planners with this sophisticated plan that we can't understand and everything they do is part of this unfolding of history. well, maybe they're just making mistakes. i'll tell you, i don't think that osama bin laden thought that ten years after 9/11 he'd be holed up in some cave somewhere, you know, wondering when a hell fire mis
leaked to "the new york times," their great headlines about, you know, a secret escalation in the works, you know, this kind of thing, and johnson just said to heck with it. we'll just call for more peace talks. and this time they had them. so it wasn't that tet demoralized the united states, tet just demoralized lyndon johnson. and it wasn't that johnson lost middle america, middle america lost the president. and that's why tet was sacrificed. it wasn't just the press, it was mainly...
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this event was hosted by the manhattan institute in new york city. it is about 40 minutes. >> many of you have seen the movie i'm going to be discussing before and those who haven't might want to get out of little bit more. [laughter] this is a shot from sex in the city. sex in the city has most of you know it's a is a television series as well as the subject up to movies or the title of two movies. i want to draw your attention to one fact about them that has been much less commented on. this is probably the highest educated group ever to appear on television. we have a harvard educated corporate lawyer. we have a educated art gallery manager of public relations consultant and a journalist -- well, a sex columnist. they represent what i call the new girl order. now let's go to the next image. [laughter] more of the same, and more of the same. could this be the new boy order? i call them a child-man, admittedly these characters are on the order of caricature, but their general persona has gained significant traction in contemporary culture. this pers
this event was hosted by the manhattan institute in new york city. it is about 40 minutes. >> many of you have seen the movie i'm going to be discussing before and those who haven't might want to get out of little bit more. [laughter] this is a shot from sex in the city. sex in the city has most of you know it's a is a television series as well as the subject up to movies or the title of two movies. i want to draw your attention to one fact about them that has been much less commented on....
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the sons of liberty started functioning in boston and new york. things started to change. and a group started to question the revolution. for a while it was a political debate. i can across the club that was formed in plymouth, it was formed in 1770 or 71. go ahead and look it up, it's in the book. and there was called the old colony club pity was founded primarily by descendants passengers on the mayflower. there isn't a better american pedigree to say you descended from the mayflower. a lot of the people who descended from the mayflower and the generation of the revolution were tories. well, they formed a club, and they decided that they would celebrate the landing from the mayflower every year. they didn't call it thanksgiving. they just said they would have a big dinner at the colony club, the old colony club, and by about the third year, there are people in the club who are starting to think i want to be a tory, one to be a rebel, and what happens finally is the sons of liberty in 1774, 75 say there is it going to be any more colony club in plymouth. we are going to t
the sons of liberty started functioning in boston and new york. things started to change. and a group started to question the revolution. for a while it was a political debate. i can across the club that was formed in plymouth, it was formed in 1770 or 71. go ahead and look it up, it's in the book. and there was called the old colony club pity was founded primarily by descendants passengers on the mayflower. there isn't a better american pedigree to say you descended from the mayflower. a lot...
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york, and neither one of them are right-wing republicans, and i doubt they watch fox news every night. they should, but i doubt they do. [laughter] i want to mention one other thing, and that is that we can't spend what we don't have, and you can't borrow what you can't pay back. you understand that in your family. if you're in real serious financial trouble in your family, the first thing you do is say, okay, we're going to have to stop spending. i've never met a mother and a father, a husband and a wife who have said, okay, i lost my job. i don't know what we're going to do. we're broke. we have no savings, so, you know what we need to do? let's go to disney world. we don't go spend money. we figure out how to cut back our expenditures. we start figuring out what we can sell. i mean, my gosh, when i ran for office -- and i knew i didn't have enough money to live on -- i cashed my insurance policy, i cashed in some annuities, we sold off things. my point is that you don't just go out and recklessly spend if you don't have it, and the last thing you do if you can't pay it back, you do
york, and neither one of them are right-wing republicans, and i doubt they watch fox news every night. they should, but i doubt they do. [laughter] i want to mention one other thing, and that is that we can't spend what we don't have, and you can't borrow what you can't pay back. you understand that in your family. if you're in real serious financial trouble in your family, the first thing you do is say, okay, we're going to have to stop spending. i've never met a mother and a father, a husband...
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finance in in new york. there's no industry where knowing a little bit is more valuable, more important, and that's why there's a strong tendency of idea oriented industries to be the mainstay of urban renaissance whether you're talking biotech in massachusetts or computers in greater san fransisco. you're talking about leveraging this ability on smart people who learn from one another. it's suggested that computers will make that obsolete, but i don't think that's true because there's something so fundamental about us as people that makes face-to-face contact so valuable. we evolved over years to have a rich set of tools to communicate with each other. anyone who taught knows the hard part about teaching is not knowing the information and your script, but it's knowing whether or not your audience gets it and your ideas are getting through. human beings have these great cues to signal confusion, and that's, you know, a critical part of transmitting complicated idea, and what new technology has done is make t
finance in in new york. there's no industry where knowing a little bit is more valuable, more important, and that's why there's a strong tendency of idea oriented industries to be the mainstay of urban renaissance whether you're talking biotech in massachusetts or computers in greater san fransisco. you're talking about leveraging this ability on smart people who learn from one another. it's suggested that computers will make that obsolete, but i don't think that's true because there's...